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Because I had a professor in college who was related to Dietrich Bonhoeffer, I became interested in German history. From Bismarck to Hitler, The Nazi Seizure of Power and the Holocaust. Steve, you hit every nail on it's head, history wise. Not many people living today recall how the ground was laid for the rise of the Nazi Party and fascism unless they'd made a study of it. People today won't take the time to fact check, no less do a deep dive back into history to see how fascism has progressed, unless they themselves want fascism to succeed. Trump and MAGA do. Whether Trump actually had a copy of Mein Kampf on his bedside table is debatable. But someone in his sphere surely has had. One of the prime directives of any coup is to control the media, to "dictate" the narrative. I'm not one to promote conspiracies (the Trump assassination attempt was staged) but, Joe and Mika taking down MSNBC plays right into hands of MAGA to control (or destroy) one of the largest "liberal" media outlets. Chatter about Musk buying MSNBC from Comcast to either: add to the MAGA propaganda arsenal; or stifle it, is no better evidence that the fascist "prime directive" is in play. By taking down MSNBC, whether intentionally or not, Mika and Joe may have done us a service. They inadvertently have turned the headlights up on all MSM. All cable news outlets operate in a way that is detrimental to honest reporting because they do not have to follow FCC regulations. They've been allowed to get away with that for to long. And now the FCC will be under the control of the Trump administration. It's a perfect confluence of events. Almost like it was planned.

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I still like MSNBC it’s still the only place to see the other side. I recently reads biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer but don’t think we have any like him in this country unfortunately! I despise Trump and the system has allowed this con artist to become president for the second time. It’s tragic that in the past 91 years we ave learned Nothing! We or they have just elected a man who is every bit as corrupt and evil as Adolph ever was and a man with Dementia! He was bad enough 8 years ago but now he’s pure evil. I am disappointed in Joe and Mika for going to Trump but I suppose they were worried about their jobs as worried as the network NBC. Trump is going to make everyone bow and scrape at least for now. How long before his shrinking grasp on reality lasts? He’s not even close to being a normal human being. I try to see what his voters see in him but I can’t. There is something really wrong with they’re thinking they’ve been blindsided by Fox propaganda and don’t even know that Fox is not licensed as a News Channel it’s an Entertainment channel, they don’t have to tell the TRUTH! So they don’t!

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They have money and investments. The will not go broke. They can do other things to make money - books, podcasts, new news gigs, etc. By giving in to Trump the strengthend him.

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That history is here. Mussolini wrote the How to.

https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/the-playbook-is-known?r=3m1bs

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